LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Directv Group Inc. (NYSE:DTV - news) on Tuesday said it planned to roll out various new products in 2006, including its new DIRECTV 2Go service for portable media players and a new HD DVR.

Starting in the first quarter, DIRECTV, which is about 34 percent owned by News Corp Inc. (NYSE:NWS - news), will offer customers top programs from NBC and cable networks, USA, SCI FI and Bravo, within hours after they air, commercial free, for 99 cents, through the new DIRECTV Plus interactive DVR.

The DIRECTV 2Go service will allow DIRECTV customers to transfer programming content from their DIRECTV Plus DVR to a wide variety of portable media players